Jesus Cardin

That is due the transmitter is configured in "drone mode", but sure it may conveniently converted to airplane/heli configuration.

Although not British but Spanish I grew up reading the articled and books on models finishing from the admired Ian Peacock, most of them I still keep. My condolences to you and your family for your loss and be sure Mr. Peacock was known and admired by many all over the world!

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2023 to everyone here, from Spain. Best Regards

My most sincere condolences to all UK friends for the passing of their exceptional Queen Elizabeth. RIP

A real honour and a pleasure being of help and inspiratiuon, Graham!

Extracts from Jet expert Mr. David James´ classic book "Ducted Fans for Model Jets" regarding C.G. location on this type of model....

Graham, your considerations are totally correct and I am a real believer that a 25% MAC Centre of Gravity is just a WINNER! In fact I always calculate my own CG based on the 25% rule against the proposed one in the instruction manuals and it always proved safe and successful but...... ONLY FOR PROPELLER DRIVEN PLANES. In jet models -being EDF, glow Ducted Fan or turbine powered- other factors add to the calculation, mainly the fuselage lift contribution but also the normally long tail moments as Martin already explained. In model jets it is normal, referred to MAC, to get the proper CG between 15% and 20%, so most probably in your Sport Jet HobbyKing did his job correctly!

Alfred, that is an original design from David Boddington while Paul asks about a kit review for the Seagull Models Christen Husky.

Totally agree with Mike! This Gipsy is really a trainer model plane disguised as a scale biplane..... My Seagull Models Gipsy Moth set up: Motor: OS 70 FS Surpass Propeller: 15 x 6" C. of G.: As per instructions Aileron: As per instructions plus 40% differential and -15% expo Elevator: As per instructions with -15% expo Rudder: As per instructions with -15% expo

This is a retracts top brand! Manufactured in Spain during the last 6-7 years, today is one of the preferred brand among R/C jet pilots. Not a cheap brand, anyway.

Thank you very much for your words about my country! I really appreciate them. I have travelled a lot but never been in UK.. and I have a very good Spanish friend working in Oracle in London since 15 years ago! Also an avid R/C flyer, always asks me to go there from Spring to Autumn so we may visit real planes flying exhibitions as well as some model plane ones and, of course, RAF Hendon and the Royal Imperial museums but due to some reason or other it has proved impossible up to now. Sure some day....! Also for you knowing about J.A.Guerrero he was the first aviation historian to write that Messerschmitt 109G sent from nazi Germany to Spain during WWII didn´t included engines nor tails as it had always been planned them to be powered by a Hispano Suiza engine made here that turned opposite to the Daimler Benz so that profiled tails needed being symmetrical to the original manufactured in Germany. Till then, the early 70s, all historians kept that they were not supplied due to war shortcomings.... today Mr. Guerrero theory is the one generally accepted.

Happy you like the book! You must know author J.A. Guerrero is a great expert and a real myth among Spanish aviation fans. He is writing aviation books and articles since the early 70s and, in fact, my first planes books are from him. I still keep them. Being both from Seville, I have never personally met him and even when his dad and my dad were work colleagues!

Steve, in such situations, please, not only use the mix screen but also the servo monitor. There you will surely see what happens with the slave channel and MOST IMPORTANT, confirm which function you programmed for the slave channel. This is if you took channel 7 for the slave channel but instead of "AUX1", "AUX2", "AUX3",..... you assigned "Throttle", then the slave channel is just a duplicated channel 3 "Throttle" and the mix simply has no effect. This is the "wonders" from when you have a so great liberty defining and assigning channels. On lower Futaba radios you do not have the Function menu and it is impossible to run into such error, but today most top level radio users ask freedom of function assignation but then you MUST be very, very careful so as not to incur in software contradictions and/or avoiding logic.

If you visit Cadiz, do not forget to ask for "pescaito frito" at any bar you may go into. It is something like your "fish and chips" but at the South Spain style. There we even eat a type of shark we call "cazón". Wish you to enjoy a good holidays!

If you like going for a well documented history on the plane as well as several illustrations and drawings, I would suggest going for this book published in Spain by some of the top aviation Spanish historians: http://books.plasticmodelsfgordon.com Sure you will not regret getting it!

And how we would have seen it in books! Hope you like the photo vintage edition.....

Going as far back as possible -better to the first issue!- should be a great reason for many to subscribe, including me!

Sure NOT! Any other friend tells about "the ever increasing quantity & quality of products that are available from all around the globe" but that, simply, is not true at this moment. It is since some years, starting in 2008, that model hobby is in decline and a good clue is how many large producers and distributors have gone out of bussiness all around the world: Graupner, Robbe, Kavan, Great Planes (with all the brands associated!), A2Pro, TopModel,..... It is true other brands have emerged but their customer sum does not come close to 50% of that of the old brands, and we all know what happens when a market gets smaller and it is things do not go better but worse as demand becomes smaller. When there is fewer modelers, remaining brands give up design and production of new products and then we have not only the new legar requirements to fly but also that as we become fewer and fewer at the clubs, quotes to keep the flying sites will rise to levels when club members will have to give up and number of clubs will become lower as, probably, members from different ones will join so as to keep flying but probably having to travel quite farther and spending even more money on gas. Although I didn´t think to have seen it in my life, my view is that in less than 10 years all types of airplane modelling will be a small and elitist hobby as today is model trains.

I think it may be a semi scale model of the real aerobatic plane Giles G-200 or 202.

My modelling heroes are..... 1.- First of all my parents for allowing and encouraging me into the hobby. I hope I will never forget about my first built -a rubber powered Focke Wulf 190- together with my father! 2.- Then my uncle Pepe Cardin, who teached me to build and fly from simple free flight models to my first R/C gliders and planes. 3.- Then on the general world of model planes, my first heroe was a certain Geral Curd as his Bucker Jungmann desing for RCM&E was the first plan I fall in love with (then it took several years till I was able to get a copy!) 4.- Finally, of course, those great monsters of R/C modeling as Hanno Prettner, Wolfgan Matt, Dave Platt, Brian Taylor, Dennis Briant, Duncan Hutson, Gordon Whitehead, Philip Avonds, Mike Cherry, Jim Fox...... and many, many more I knew just throug the magazines. THANKS TO EVERYONE AND ALL OF THEM!

A word of warning: In fact there existed not one but 2 Jurca MJ5 Scirocco designs from Duncan Hudson! First one was a 1/4.8 scale plan design and he offered molded canopy and fiberglass cowl for it, if I am not wrong. Unfortunately this plan is missing, at least, since the Traplet era as I asked for it some years ago.... and they even didn´t know anything about it! Then there was a 1/4 scale full kit design, which is the one available from Sarik Hobbies, wich sold including all accessories associated to this model. Mr. Hudson even offered a retracting gear set as an option. Although I do not have details about the plans now offered, I got an original kit plans set from Ebay shortly before Sarik Hobbies offered them and I may confirm that the original ones were typical kit intended plans, without former nor ribs drawings and, most important, clearly orientated to use the large fiberglass fuselage top deck included with the kit. So if you are looking to build this model, I strongly recommend buying the complete kit set from Traplet. About the kit there were, in fact, 2 reviews as fas as I know: one published in RCM&E and the other one in RC Scale Aircrat Quarterly, both reviews from different builders/writters. I hava already asked about it some time ago without any positive answer, but I will be very interested on obtaining a copy of the older/smaller plan design if anyone still keeps one. Thanks!

Ron, why do not you go the Brian Taylor route with his 70" Hurricane design? He introduced a small hinged lip just below the cowl, so it could be kept gravity closed for real look on the ground and then opened and kept so with a clothes clip or magnet. As far as I know, he used the same fresh air intake for his 69" Spitfires MKI and XIV/XIX as well as for his 70" Hurricane, so you have plenty design plans to check.

Interested both in the surgery as well as in your cooling solution!

You do not need taking the stick mechanism to pieces, although it is the best way to go. Regarding reclaibrating, if I remember correctly the FX-20 has the same software as the old 8FG, which includes a calibrating menu and it is not needed any special service software to recalibrate the main controls.

Stick switches should include a switch, a mechanised stick top to accept the switch and a drilled stick bar for passing the cables. Most Futaba radios need changing the stick bar for installing switch sticks, although I know some models already mount drilled bar. I do not know about the FX-20, sorry.